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Applied to corn yield data from the U.S. Midwest, SVD-funNet achieves superior predictive accuracy compared with leading machine learning approaches and parametric statistical models.

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Claim · model-written summary

Applied to corn yield data from the U.S. Midwest, SVD-funNet achieves superior predictive accuracy compared with leading machine learning approaches and parametric statistical models.

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predictive accuracye3
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leading machine learning approaches and parametric statistical modelse3
Setting
U.S. Midweste3

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“Application to corn yield data from the U.S. Midwest demonstrates that SVD-funNet achieves superior predictive accuracy compared to both leading machine learning approaches and parametric statistical models”

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Title

Spatially varying deep functional neural network: application in large-scale crop yield prediction

Yeonjoo Park; Bo Li; Yehua Li Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics) 2026. doi:10.1093/jrsssc/qlag023

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